[iovrthoughtthis]

i didn't see the words "it depends" anywhere in this

thats the whole point of engineering, picking/building the right solutions for the problems and context

some stuff just needs a vps, a php file and an sqlite db and it will scale

other stuff might need container orchestration or anywhere in-between (or beyond). it should depend on the context though and we should be prepared to change strategy as needed

[raffraffraff]

I did say "These don't apply to everyone but:" and then gave my generic list of stuff that works for a lot of people.

I get that some people can just run a single go binary or whatever. The ones that don't, need to set themselves up to grow easily when they need to. Having some sort of basic plan or framework that doesn't take more than a week to set up is due diligence, and hiring (when your need to) will be much easier.